5 Ancient Survival Skills We Have Forgotten Modern life consists of personal vehicle transportation, public services, and the ability to make a quick trip to the shops and buy everything from exotic spices to tropical fruit. If you took the average modern person and...
Horrible Ancient Medicines and why you shouldn’t try them It has only been within the closer half of the last 100 years that we as a race have started to understand medicine. Before this, it was mostly down to luck and guesswork to cure an illness, with everything...
What did people eat in the Stone Age? The Stone Age in Britain ended around the year 3500 BC with the discovery of how to use copper. Before this people would have to hunt and farm with nothing but wood and flint, and so were limited to a very small list of foods....
How did humans survive the last Ice Age? The answer is both they didn’t and also we still are surviving an ice age. The earth has gone through five significant ice ages in its life, and during the time humans existed, we were not “humans” but one of the earlier...
The worst survival rations in History Throughout history, people have had to resort to eating some pretty nasty things, especially in the earlier days of civilization before the invention of canned food or plastic. There were limited options for what could be taken on...
The 5 best Iron Age sights in Britain The Iron Age ran from around 800 BC until the Romans first arrived in 43 AD, who brought with them the technology to make steel and other metals. Before their arrival the people of Britain led a semi hunter-gatherer lifestyle they...